Guido van Rossum
This article explains the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6. Python 3.0, also known as “Python 3000” or “Py3K”, is the first ever intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. There are more changes than in a typical release, and more that are important for all Python users. Nevertheless, after digesting the changes, you’ll find that Python really hasn’t changed all that much – by and large, we’re mostly fixing well-known annoyances and warts, and removing a lot of old cruft.
This article doesn’t attempt to provide a complete specification of all new features, but instead tries to give a convenient overview. For full details, you should refer to the documentation for Python 3.0, and/or the many PEPs referenced in the text. If you want to understand the complete implementation and design rationale for a particular feature, PEPs usually have more details than the regular documentation; but note that PEPs usually are not kept up-to-date once a feature has been fully implemented.
Due to time constraints this document is not as complete as it should have been. As always for a new release, the
Misc/NEWS
file in the source distribution contains a wealth of detailed information about every small thing that was changed.
This section lists those few changes that are most likely to trip you up if you’re used to Python 2.5.
print
statement has been replaced with a
print()
function, with keyword arguments to replace most of the special syntax of the old
print
statement (
PEP 3105
). Examples:
Old: print "The answer is", 2*2
New: print("The answer is", 2*2)
Old: print x, # Trailing comma suppresses newline
New: print(x, end=" ") # Appends a space instead of a newline
Old: print # Prints a newline
New: print() # You must call the function!
Old: print >>sys.stderr, "fatal error"
New: print("fatal error", file=sys.stderr)
Old: print (x, y) # prints repr((x, y))
New: print((x, y)) # Not the same as print(x, y)!
You can also customize the separator between items, e.g.:
print("There are <", 2**32, "> possibilities!", sep="")
which produces:
There are <4294967296> possibilities!
注意:
print()
function doesn’t support the “softspace” feature of the old
print
statement. For example, in Python 2.x,
print "A\n", "B"
would write
"A\nB\n"
; but in Python 3.0,
print("A\n", "B")
writes
"A\n B\n"
.
Initially, you’ll be finding yourself typing the old
print x
a lot in interactive mode. Time to retrain your fingers to type
print(x)
instead!
当使用
2to3
source-to-source conversion tool, all
print
statements are automatically converted to
print()
function calls, so this is mostly a non-issue for larger projects.
Some well-known APIs no longer return lists:
dict
方法
dict.keys()
,
dict.items()
and
dict.values()
return “views” instead of lists. For example, this no longer works:
k = d.keys(); k.sort()
。使用
k =
sorted(d)
instead (this works in Python 2.5 too and is just as efficient).
Also, the
dict.iterkeys()
,
dict.iteritems()
and
dict.itervalues()
methods are no longer supported.
map()
and
filter()
return iterators. If you really need a list and the input sequences are all of equal length, a quick fix is to wrap
map()
in
list()
,如
list(map(...))
, but a better fix is often to use a list comprehension (especially when the original code uses
lambda
), or rewriting the code so it doesn’t need a list at all. Particularly tricky is
map()
invoked for the side effects of the function; the correct transformation is to use a regular
for
loop (since creating a list would just be wasteful).
If the input sequences are not of equal length,
map()
will stop at the termination of the shortest of the sequences. For full compatibility with
map()
from Python 2.x, also wrap the sequences in
itertools.zip_longest()
,如
map(func, *sequences)
becomes
list(map(func, itertools.zip_longest(*sequences)))
.
range()
now behaves like
xrange()
used to behave, except it works with values of arbitrary size. The latter no longer exists.
zip()
now returns an iterator.
Python 3.0 has simplified the rules for ordering comparisons:
The ordering comparison operators (
<
,
<=
,
>=
,
>
) raise a TypeError exception when the operands don’t have a meaningful natural ordering. Thus, expressions like
1 < ''
,
0
>
None
or
len <= len
are no longer valid, and e.g.
None <
None
引发
TypeError
instead of returning
False
. A corollary is that sorting a heterogeneous list no longer makes sense – all the elements must be comparable to each other. Note that this does not apply to the
==
and
!=
operators: objects of different incomparable types always compare unequal to each other.
builtin.sorted()
and
list.sort()
no longer accept the
cmp
argument providing a comparison function. Use the
key
argument instead. N.B. the
key
and
reverse
arguments are now “keyword-only”.
cmp()
function should be treated as gone, and the
__cmp__()
special method is no longer supported. Use
__lt__()
for sorting,
__eq__()
with
__hash__()
, and other rich comparisons as needed. (If you really need the
cmp()
functionality, you could use the expression
(a > b) - (a < b)
as the equivalent for
cmp(a, b)
.)
PEP 237
: Essentially,
long
renamed to
int
. That is, there is only one built-in integral type, named
int
; but it behaves mostly like the old
long
类型。
PEP 238
: An expression like
1/2
returns a float. Use
1//2
to get the truncating behavior. (The latter syntax has existed for years, at least since Python 2.2.)
sys.maxint
constant was removed, since there is no longer a limit to the value of integers. However,
sys.maxsize
can be used as an integer larger than any practical list or string index. It conforms to the implementation’s “natural” integer size and is typically the same as
sys.maxint
in previous releases on the same platform (assuming the same build options).
repr()
of a long integer doesn’t include the trailing
L
anymore, so code that unconditionally strips that character will chop off the last digit instead. (Use
str()
instead.)
Octal literals are no longer of the form
0720
;使用
0o720
代替。
Everything you thought you knew about binary data and Unicode has changed.
Python 3.0 uses the concepts of
text
and (binary)
data
instead of Unicode strings and 8-bit strings. All text is Unicode; however
encoded
Unicode is represented as binary data. The type used to hold text is
str
, the type used to hold data is
bytes
. The biggest difference with the 2.x situation is that any attempt to mix text and data in Python 3.0 raises
TypeError
, whereas if you were to mix Unicode and 8-bit strings in Python 2.x, it would work if the 8-bit string happened to contain only 7-bit (ASCII) bytes, but you would get
UnicodeDecodeError
if it contained non-ASCII values. This value-specific behavior has caused numerous sad faces over the years.
As a consequence of this change in philosophy, pretty much all code that uses Unicode, encodings or binary data most likely has to change. The change is for the better, as in the 2.x world there were numerous bugs having to do with mixing encoded and unencoded text. To be prepared in Python 2.x, start using
unicode
for all unencoded text, and
str
for binary or encoded data only. Then the
2to3
tool will do most of the work for you.
You can no longer use
u"..."
literals for Unicode text. However, you must use
b"..."
literals for binary data.
As the
str
and
bytes
types cannot be mixed, you must always explicitly convert between them. Use
str.encode()
to go from
str
to
bytes
,和
bytes.decode()
to go from
bytes
to
str
. You can also use
bytes(s, encoding=...)
and
str(b, encoding=...)
,分别。
像
str
,
bytes
type is immutable. There is a separate
可变
type to hold buffered binary data,
bytearray
. Nearly all APIs that accept
bytes
also accept
bytearray
. The mutable API is based on
collections.MutableSequence
.
All backslashes in raw string literals are interpreted literally. This means that
'\U'
and
'\u'
escapes in raw strings are not treated specially. For example,
r'\u20ac'
is a string of 6 characters in Python 3.0, whereas in 2.6,
ur'\u20ac'
was the single “euro” character. (Of course, this change only affects raw string literals; the euro character is
'\u20ac'
in Python 3.0.)
内置
basestring
abstract type was removed. Use
str
instead. The
str
and
bytes
types don’t have functionality enough in common to warrant a shared base class. The
2to3
tool (see below) replaces every occurrence of
basestring
with
str
.
Files opened as text files (still the default mode for
open()
) always use an encoding to map between strings (in memory) and bytes (on disk). Binary files (opened with a
b
in the mode argument) always use bytes in memory. This means that if a file is opened using an incorrect mode or encoding, I/O will likely fail loudly, instead of silently producing incorrect data. It also means that even Unix users will have to specify the correct mode (text or binary) when opening a file. There is a platform-dependent default encoding, which on Unixy platforms can be set with the
LANG
environment variable (and sometimes also with some other platform-specific locale-related environment variables). In many cases, but not all, the system default is UTF-8; you should never count on this default. Any application reading or writing more than pure ASCII text should probably have a way to override the encoding. There is no longer any need for using the encoding-aware streams in the
codecs
模块。
The initial values of
sys.stdin
,
sys.stdout
and
sys.stderr
are now unicode-only text files (i.e., they are instances of
io.TextIOBase
). To read and write bytes data with these streams, you need to use their
io.TextIOBase.buffer
属性。
Filenames are passed to and returned from APIs as (Unicode) strings. This can present platform-specific problems because on some platforms filenames are arbitrary byte strings. (On the other hand, on Windows filenames are natively stored as Unicode.) As a work-around, most APIs (e.g.
open()
and many functions in the
os
module) that take filenames accept
bytes
objects as well as strings, and a few APIs have a way to ask for a
bytes
return value. Thus,
os.listdir()
returns a list of
bytes
instances if the argument is a
bytes
instance, and
os.getcwdb()
returns the current working directory as a
bytes
instance. Note that when
os.listdir()
returns a list of strings, filenames that cannot be decoded properly are omitted rather than raising
UnicodeError
.
Some system APIs like
os.environ
and
sys.argv
can also present problems when the bytes made available by the system is not interpretable using the default encoding. Setting the
LANG
variable and rerunning the program is probably the best approach.
PEP 3138
:
repr()
of a string no longer escapes non-ASCII characters. It still escapes control characters and code points with non-printable status in the Unicode standard, however.
PEP 3120 : The default source encoding is now UTF-8.
PEP 3131 : Non-ASCII letters are now allowed in identifiers. (However, the standard library remains ASCII-only with the exception of contributor names in comments.)
StringIO
and
cStringIO
modules are gone. Instead, import the
io
module and use
io.StringIO
or
io.BytesIO
for text and data respectively.
另请参阅 Unicode 怎么样 , which was updated for Python 3.0.
This section gives a brief overview of every syntactic change in Python 3.0.
PEP 3107
: Function argument and return value annotations. This provides a standardized way of annotating a function’s parameters and return value. There are no semantics attached to such annotations except that they can be introspected at runtime using the
__annotations__
attribute. The intent is to encourage experimentation through metaclasses, decorators or frameworks.
PEP 3102
: Keyword-only arguments. Named parameters occurring after
*args
in the parameter list
must
be specified using keyword syntax in the call. You can also use a bare
*
in the parameter list to indicate that you don’t accept a variable-length argument list, but you do have keyword-only arguments.
Keyword arguments are allowed after the list of base classes in a class definition. This is used by the new convention for specifying a metaclass (see next section), but can be used for other purposes as well, as long as the metaclass supports it.
PEP 3104
:
nonlocal
statement. Using
nonlocal x
you can now assign directly to a variable in an outer (but non-global) scope.
nonlocal
is a new reserved word.
PEP 3132
: Extended Iterable Unpacking. You can now write things like
a, b, *rest = some_sequence
. And even
*rest, a =
stuff
。
rest
object is always a (possibly empty) list; the right-hand side may be any iterable. Example:
(a, *rest, b) = range(5)
This sets
a
to
0
,
b
to
4
,和
rest
to
[1, 2, 3]
.
Dictionary comprehensions:
{k: v for k, v in stuff}
means the same thing as
dict(stuff)
but is more flexible. (This is
PEP 274
vindicated. :-)
Set literals, e.g.
{1, 2}
。注意,
{}
is an empty dictionary; use
set()
for an empty set. Set comprehensions are also supported; e.g.,
{x for x in stuff}
means the same thing as
set(stuff)
but is more flexible.
New octal literals, e.g.
0o720
(already in 2.6). The old octal literals (
0720
) are gone.
New binary literals, e.g.
0b1010
(already in 2.6), and there is a new corresponding built-in function,
bin()
.
Bytes literals are introduced with a leading
b
or
B
, and there is a new corresponding built-in function,
bytes()
.
PEP 3109
and
PEP 3134
: new
raise
statement syntax:
raise [expr [from expr]]
. See below.
as
and
with
are now reserved words. (Since 2.6, actually.)
True
,
False
,和
None
are reserved words. (2.6 partially enforced the restrictions on
None
already.)
Change from
except
exc
,
var
to
except
exc
as
var
。见
PEP 3110
.
PEP 3115 : New Metaclass Syntax. Instead of:
class C:
__metaclass__ = M
...
you must now use:
class C(metaclass=M):
...
The module-global
__metaclass__
variable is no longer supported. (It was a crutch to make it easier to default to new-style classes without deriving every class from
object
.)
List comprehensions no longer support the syntactic form
[... for var in item1, item2, ...]
。使用
[... for var in (item1, item2, ...)]
instead. Also note that list comprehensions have different semantics: they are closer to syntactic sugar for a generator expression inside a
list()
constructor, and in particular the loop control variables are no longer leaked into the surrounding scope.
ellipsis
(
...
) can be used as an atomic expression anywhere. (Previously it was only allowed in slices.) Also, it
must
now be spelled as
...
. (Previously it could also be spelled as
. . .
, by a mere accident of the grammar.)
PEP 3113
: Tuple parameter unpacking removed. You can no longer write
def foo(a, (b, c)): ...
。使用
def foo(a, b_c): b, c = b_c
代替。
Removed backticks (use
repr()
instead).
移除
<>
(use
!=
instead).
Removed keyword:
exec()
is no longer a keyword; it remains as a function. (Fortunately the function syntax was also accepted in 2.x.) Also note that
exec()
no longer takes a stream argument; instead of
exec(f)
you can use
exec(f.read())
.
Integer literals no longer support a trailing
l
or
L
.
String literals no longer support a leading
u
or
U
.
from
模块
import
*
syntax is only allowed at the module level, no longer inside functions.
The only acceptable syntax for relative imports is
from .[module]
import name
. All
import
forms not starting with
.
are interpreted as absolute imports. (
PEP 328
)
Classic classes are gone.
Since many users presumably make the jump straight from Python 2.5 to Python 3.0, this section reminds the reader of new features that were originally designed for Python 3.0 but that were back-ported to Python 2.6. The corresponding sections in Python 2.6 的新功能 should be consulted for longer descriptions.
PEP 343: The ‘with’ statement
。
with
statement is now a standard feature and no longer needs to be imported from the
__future__
. Also check out
Writing Context Managers
and
The contextlib module
.
PEP 366: Explicit Relative Imports From a Main Module
. This enhances the usefulness of the
-m
option when the referenced module lives in a package.
PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting
. Note: the 2.6 description mentions the
format()
method for both 8-bit and Unicode strings. In 3.0, only the
str
type (text strings with Unicode support) supports this method; the
bytes
type does not. The plan is to eventually make this the only API for string formatting, and to start deprecating the
%
operator in Python 3.1.
PEP 3105: print As a Function
. This is now a standard feature and no longer needs to be imported from
__future__
. More details were given above.
PEP 3110: Exception-Handling Changes
。
except
exc
as
var
syntax is now standard and
except
exc
,
var
is no longer supported. (Of course, the
as
var
part is still optional.)
PEP 3112: Byte Literals
。
b"..."
string literal notation (and its variants like
b'...'
,
b"""..."""
,和
br"..."
) now produces a literal of type
bytes
.
PEP 3116: New I/O Library
。
io
module is now the standard way of doing file I/O. The built-in
open()
function is now an alias for
io.open()
and has additional keyword arguments
encoding
,
errors
,
newline
and
closefd
. Also note that an invalid
mode
argument now raises
ValueError
, not
IOError
. The binary file object underlying a text file object can be accessed as
f.buffer
(but beware that the text object maintains a buffer of itself in order to speed up the encoding and decoding operations).
PEP 3118: Revised Buffer Protocol
. The old builtin
buffer()
is now really gone; the new builtin
memoryview()
provides (mostly) similar functionality.
PEP 3119: Abstract Base Classes
。
abc
module and the ABCs defined in the
collections
module plays a somewhat more prominent role in the language now, and built-in collection types like
dict
and
list
conform to the
collections.MutableMapping
and
collections.MutableSequence
ABCs, respectively.
PEP 3127: Integer Literal Support and Syntax . As mentioned above, the new octal literal notation is the only one supported, and binary literals have been added.
PEP 3141: A Type Hierarchy for Numbers
。
numbers
module is another new use of ABCs, defining Python’s “numeric tower”. Also note the new
fractions
module which implements
numbers.Rational
.
Due to time constraints, this document does not exhaustively cover the very extensive changes to the standard library. PEP 3108 is the reference for the major changes to the library. Here’s a capsule review:
Many old modules were removed. Some, like
gopherlib
(no longer used) and
md5
(replaced by
hashlib
), were already deprecated by
PEP 4
. Others were removed as a result of the removal of support for various platforms such as Irix, BeOS and Mac OS 9 (see
PEP 11
). Some modules were also selected for removal in Python 3.0 due to lack of use or because a better replacement exists. See
PEP 3108
for an exhaustive list.
bsddb3
package was removed because its presence in the core standard library has proved over time to be a particular burden for the core developers due to testing instability and Berkeley DB’s release schedule. However, the package is alive and well, externally maintained at
https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm
.
Some modules were renamed because their old name disobeyed PEP 8 , or for various other reasons. Here’s the list:
|
Old Name |
New Name |
|---|---|
|
_winreg |
winreg |
|
ConfigParser |
configparser |
|
copy_reg |
copyreg |
|
Queue |
queue |
|
SocketServer |
socketserver |
|
markupbase |
_markupbase |
|
repr |
reprlib |
|
test.test_support |
test.support |
A common pattern in Python 2.x is to have one version of a module implemented in pure Python, with an optional accelerated version implemented as a C extension; for example,
pickle
and
cPickle
. This places the burden of importing the accelerated version and falling back on the pure Python version on each user of these modules. In Python 3.0, the accelerated versions are considered implementation details of the pure Python versions. Users should always import the standard version, which attempts to import the accelerated version and falls back to the pure Python version. The
pickle
/
cPickle
pair received this treatment. The
profile
module is on the list for 3.1. The
StringIO
module has been turned into a class in the
io
模块。
Some related modules have been grouped into packages, and usually the submodule names have been simplified. The resulting new packages are:
html
(
HTMLParser
,
htmlentitydefs
).
http
(
httplib
,
BaseHTTPServer
,
CGIHTTPServer
,
SimpleHTTPServer
,
Cookie
,
cookielib
).
tkinter
(all
Tkinter
-related modules except
turtle
). The target audience of
turtle
doesn’t really care about
tkinter
. Also note that as of Python 2.6, the functionality of
turtle
has been greatly enhanced.
xmlrpc
(
xmlrpclib
,
DocXMLRPCServer
,
SimpleXMLRPCServer
).
Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by PEP 3108 :
Killed
sets
. Use the built-in
set()
类。
Cleanup of the
sys
module: removed
sys.exitfunc()
,
sys.exc_clear()
,
sys.exc_type
,
sys.exc_value
,
sys.exc_traceback
。(注意,
sys.last_type
etc. remain.)
Cleanup of the
array.array
type: the
read()
and
write()
methods are gone; use
fromfile()
and
tofile()
instead. Also, the
'c'
typecode for array is gone – use either
'b'
for bytes or
'u'
for Unicode characters.
Cleanup of the
operator
module: removed
sequenceIncludes()
and
isCallable()
.
Cleanup of the
thread
模块:
acquire_lock()
and
release_lock()
are gone; use
acquire()
and
release()
代替。
Cleanup of the
random
module: removed the
jumpahead()
API.
new
module is gone.
函数
os.tmpnam()
,
os.tempnam()
and
os.tmpfile()
have been removed in favor of the
tempfile
模块。
tokenize
module has been changed to work with bytes. The main entry point is now
tokenize.tokenize()
, instead of generate_tokens.
string.letters
and its friends (
string.lowercase
and
string.uppercase
) are gone. Use
string.ascii_letters
etc. instead. (The reason for the removal is that
string.letters
and friends had locale-specific behavior, which is a bad idea for such attractively-named global “constants”.)
Renamed module
__builtin__
to
builtins
(removing the underscores, adding an ‘s’). The
__builtins__
variable found in most global namespaces is unchanged. To modify a builtin, you should use
builtins
, not
__builtins__
!
A new system for built-in string formatting operations replaces the
%
string formatting operator. (However, the
%
operator is still supported; it will be deprecated in Python 3.1 and removed from the language at some later time.) Read
PEP 3101
for the full scoop.
The APIs for raising and catching exception have been cleaned up and new powerful features added:
PEP 352
: All exceptions must be derived (directly or indirectly) from
BaseException
. This is the root of the exception hierarchy. This is not new as a recommendation, but the
requirement
to inherit from
BaseException
is new. (Python 2.6 still allowed classic classes to be raised, and placed no restriction on what you can catch.) As a consequence, string exceptions are finally truly and utterly dead.
Almost all exceptions should actually derive from
Exception
;
BaseException
should only be used as a base class for exceptions that should only be handled at the top level, such as
SystemExit
or
KeyboardInterrupt
. The recommended idiom for handling all exceptions except for this latter category is to use
except
Exception
.
StandardError
was removed.
Exceptions no longer behave as sequences. Use the
args
attribute instead.
PEP 3109
: Raising exceptions. You must now use
raise
Exception(args)
而不是
raise Exception, args
. Additionally, you can no longer explicitly specify a traceback; instead, if you
have
to do this, you can assign directly to the
__traceback__
attribute (see below).
PEP 3110
: Catching exceptions. You must now use
except SomeException as variable
而不是
except SomeException, variable
. Moreover, the
variable
is explicitly deleted when the
except
block is left.
PEP 3134
: Exception chaining. There are two cases: implicit chaining and explicit chaining. Implicit chaining happens when an exception is raised in an
except
or
finally
handler block. This usually happens due to a bug in the handler block; we call this a
secondary
exception. In this case, the original exception (that was being handled) is saved as the
__context__
attribute of the secondary exception. Explicit chaining is invoked with this syntax:
raise SecondaryException() from primary_exception
(在哪里
primary_exception
is any expression that produces an exception object, probably an exception that was previously caught). In this case, the primary exception is stored on the
__cause__
attribute of the secondary exception. The traceback printed when an unhandled exception occurs walks the chain of
__cause__
and
__context__
attributes and prints a separate traceback for each component of the chain, with the primary exception at the top. (Java users may recognize this behavior.)
PEP 3134
: Exception objects now store their traceback as the
__traceback__
attribute. This means that an exception object now contains all the information pertaining to an exception, and there are fewer reasons to use
sys.exc_info()
(though the latter is not removed).
A few exception messages are improved when Windows fails to load an extension module. For example,
error code 193
现为
%1 is
not
a
valid
Win32
application
. Strings now deal with non-English locales.
!=
now returns the opposite of
==
,除非
==
返回
NotImplemented
.
The concept of “unbound methods” has been removed from the language. When referencing a method as a class attribute, you now get a plain function object.
__getslice__()
,
__setslice__()
and
__delslice__()
were killed. The syntax
a[i:j]
now translates to
a.__getitem__(slice(i, j))
(或
__setitem__()
or
__delitem__()
, when used as an assignment or deletion target, respectively).
PEP 3114
: the standard
next()
method has been renamed to
__next__()
.
__oct__()
and
__hex__()
special methods are removed –
oct()
and
hex()
use
__index__()
now to convert the argument to an integer.
Removed support for
__members__
and
__methods__
.
The function attributes named
func_X
have been renamed to use the
__X__
form, freeing up these names in the function attribute namespace for user-defined attributes. To wit,
func_closure
,
func_code
,
func_defaults
,
func_dict
,
func_doc
,
func_globals
,
func_name
were renamed to
__closure__
,
__code__
,
__defaults__
,
__dict__
,
__doc__
,
__globals__
,
__name__
,分别。
__nonzero__()
现为
__bool__()
.
PEP 3135
: New
super()
. You can now invoke
super()
without arguments and (assuming this is in a regular instance method defined inside a
class
statement) the right class and instance will automatically be chosen. With arguments, the behavior of
super()
is unchanged.
PEP 3111
:
raw_input()
被重命名为
input()
. That is, the new
input()
function reads a line from
sys.stdin
and returns it with the trailing newline stripped. It raises
EOFError
if the input is terminated prematurely. To get the old behavior of
input()
,使用
eval(input())
.
A new built-in function
next()
was added to call the
__next__()
method on an object.
round()
function rounding strategy and return type have changed. Exact halfway cases are now rounded to the nearest even result instead of away from zero. (For example,
round(2.5)
now returns
2
而不是
3
.)
round(x[, n])
now delegates to
x.__round__([n])
instead of always returning a float. It generally returns an integer when called with a single argument and a value of the same type as
x
when called with two arguments.
移动
intern()
to
sys.intern()
.
Removed:
apply()
. Instead of
apply(f, args)
use
f(*args)
.
移除
callable()
. Instead of
callable(f)
you can use
isinstance(f, collections.Callable)
。
operator.isCallable()
function is also gone.
移除
coerce()
. This function no longer serves a purpose now that classic classes are gone.
移除
execfile()
. Instead of
execfile(fn)
use
exec(open(fn).read())
.
移除
file
type. Use
open()
. There are now several different kinds of streams that open can return in the
io
模块。
移除
reduce()
。使用
functools.reduce()
if you really need it; however, 99 percent of the time an explicit
for
loop is more readable.
移除
reload()
。使用
imp.reload()
.
Removed.
dict.has_key()
– use the
in
operator instead.
Due to time constraints, here is a very incomplete list of changes to the C API.
Support for several platforms was dropped, including but not limited to Mac OS 9, BeOS, RISCOS, Irix, and Tru64.
PEP 3118 : New Buffer API.
PEP 3121 : Extension Module Initialization & Finalization.
PEP 3123
: Making
PyObject_HEAD
conform to standard C.
No more C API support for restricted execution.
PyNumber_Coerce()
,
PyNumber_CoerceEx()
,
PyMember_Get()
,和
PyMember_Set()
C APIs are removed.
New C API
PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock()
, works like
PyImport_ImportModule()
but won’t block on the import lock (returning an error instead).
Renamed the boolean conversion C-level slot and method:
nb_nonzero
现为
nb_bool
.
移除
METH_OLDARGS
and
WITH_CYCLE_GC
from the C API.
The net result of the 3.0 generalizations is that Python 3.0 runs the pystone benchmark around 10% slower than Python 2.5. Most likely the biggest cause is the removal of special-casing for small integers. There’s room for improvement, but it will happen after 3.0 is released!
For porting existing Python 2.5 or 2.6 source code to Python 3.0, the best strategy is the following:
(Prerequisite:) Start with excellent test coverage.
Port to Python 2.6. This should be no more work than the average port from Python 2.x to Python 2.(x+1). Make sure all your tests pass.
(Still using 2.6:) Turn on the
-3
command line switch. This enables warnings about features that will be removed (or change) in 3.0. Run your test suite again, and fix code that you get warnings about until there are no warnings left, and all your tests still pass.
Run the
2to3
source-to-source translator over your source code tree. (See
2to3 - 自动 Python 2 到 3 代码翻译
for more on this tool.) Run the result of the translation under Python 3.0. Manually fix up any remaining issues, fixing problems until all tests pass again.
It is not recommended to try to write source code that runs unchanged under both Python 2.6 and 3.0; you’d have to use a very contorted coding style, e.g. avoiding
print
statements, metaclasses, and much more. If you are maintaining a library that needs to support both Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, the best approach is to modify step 3 above by editing the 2.6 version of the source code and running the
2to3
translator again, rather than editing the 3.0 version of the source code.
For porting C extensions to Python 3.0, please see 将扩展模块移植到 Python 3 .